You can almost imagine Silicon Valley’s finest muttering to themselves: “With
friends like these . . .”

Or maybe worse for, as high-tech industries push for changes to immigration
laws that would allow more skilled workers to remain in the United States,
Mark Zuckerberg has infuriated some of America’s most committed liberals.

With the immigration issue reaching the US Senate this week, a grassroots
campaign led by the lobbying group Engine has solicited donations from
start-ups and big companies including Google, Yelp and Mozilla. But the
intervention of a political action group backed by the Facebook founder has
provoked fury. Mr Zuckerberg is